At first glance The
Pew Fellows program seems one of the less important parts of the
massive, foundation-funded effort to revolutionize the way the U.S.
public looks at and the U.S. government manages fish aand fishing.
However, anything more in-depth than a cursory examination will
show that among the 160 recipients of these $150,000 fellowships
are the leaders or the "stars" of the foundation funded
"blame it all on fishing" movement.

A demonstration of
how effectively the Pew Fellows can be used was in the report to
the Pew Oceans Commission titled Ecological Effects of Fishing.
From an critique of the Pew Oceans Commission I wrote about
this report:

Right off the
bat, two of the three authors who contracted with the POC to prepare the report
were also recipients of Pew Fellowships. And of the 179 references cited,
well over a third had one or more authors who could be directly connected
to Pew Trust funding (we emphasize here that we only sought “first generation”
funding connections; we didn’t attempt to ferret out all of the authors
who were working for organizations, institutions or individuals receiving
Pew funds). And when we looked only at those references cited that were authored
since 1995 (about the time that the folks at Pew apparently decided that millions
of their dollars should be spent to save the world’s oceans from commercial
seafood harvesting), almost half were connected to Pew by funding. (A table
listing all of the references cited in the report that have authors with
obvious Pew connections, what those connections are, and links to web pages
showing those connections is available at http://www.fishingnj.org/impactsreferencestable.htm).